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New Books in Human Rights
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Arlie Loughnan, "Self, Others and the State: Relations of Criminal Responsibility" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
58 mins; June 03, 2020
Courtney J. Fung, "China and Intervention at the UN Security Council: Reconciling Status" (Oxford UP, 2019)
52 mins; May 19, 2020
Antony Dapiran, "City on Fire: The Fight for Hong Kong" (Scribe, 2020)
63 hours 51 mins; May 07, 2020
M. R. Michelson and B. F. Harrison, "Transforming Prejudice: Identity, Fear, and Transgender Rights" (Oxford UP, 2020)
51 mins; May 04, 2020
MarĂ­a Cristina GarcĂ­a, "The Refugee Challenge in Post-Cold War America" (Oxford UP, 2017)
65 hours 14 mins; April 30, 2020
Adam J. MacLeod, "The Age of Selfies: Reasoning About Rights When the Stakes Are Personal" (Rowland and Littlefield, 2020)
112 hours 47 mins; April 30, 2020
Yue Hou, "The Private Sector in Public Office: Selective Property Rights in China" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
37 mins; April 30, 2020
Nicola Lacey, "In Search of Criminal Responsibility: Ideas, Interests, and Institutions" (Oxford UP, 2016)
59 mins; April 20, 2020
Oliver Kaplan, "Resisting War: How Communities Protect Themselves" (Cambridge UP, 2020)
44 mins; April 07, 2020
Anna Arstein-Kerslake, "Restoring Voice to People with Cognitive Disabilities: Realizing the Right to Equal Recognition Before the Law" (Cambridge UP, 2017)
52 mins; April 06, 2020
Jon Piccini, "Human Rights in Twentieth-Century Australia" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
69 hours 22 mins; April 03, 2020
In the Aftermath of the Rohingya Genocide: Our Failure to Protect
10 mins; January 31, 2020
Jessica Lynne Pearson, "The Colonial Politics of Global Health: France and the United Nations in Postwar Africa" (Harvard UP, 2018)
48 mins; January 15, 2020
Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia, "Banned: Immigration Enforcement in the Time of Trump" (NYU Press, 2019)
40 mins; December 30, 2019
Stanley Fish, "The First: How to Think About Hate Speech" (One Signal, 2019)
60 hours 57 mins; December 30, 2019
David Pettinicchio, "Politics of Empowerment: Disability Rights and the Cycle of American Policy Reform" (Stanford UP, 2019)
25 mins; December 26, 2019
Sandra Fahy, "Dying for Rights: Putting North Korea’s Human Rights Abuses on the Record" (Columbia UP, 2019)
51 mins; December 23, 2019
Asma T. Uddin, "When Islam Is Not a Religion: Inside America’s Fight for Religious Freedom" (Pegasus Books, 2019)
33 mins; December 16, 2019
Henning Melber, "Dag Hammarskjöld, the United Nations, and the Decolonisation of Africa" (Hurst, 2019)
74 hours 59 mins; October 21, 2019
Eric D. Weitz, "A World Divided: The Global Struggle for Human Rights in the Age of Nation-States" (Princeton UP, 2019)
48 mins; October 15, 2019
Mubbashir A. Rizvi, "The Ethics of Staying: Social Movements and Land Rights Politics in Pakistan" (Stanford UP, 2019)
54 mins; September 06, 2019
Cyril Ghosh, "De-Moralizing Gay Rights: Some Queer Remarks on LGBT+ Rights Politics in the US" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
38 mins; August 09, 2019
Gabriela GonzĂĄlez, "Redeeming La Raza: Transborder Modernity, Race, Respectability and Rights" (Oxford UP, 2018)
66 hours 43 mins; July 29, 2019
Tyrell Haberkorn, "In Plain Sight: Impunity and Human Rights in Thailand" (U Wisconsin Press, 2018)
46 mins; July 23, 2019
Katherine M. Marino, "Feminism for the Americas: The Making of an International Human Rights Movement" (UNC Press, 2019)
55 mins; June 14, 2019
Zachary Kramer, "Outsiders: Why Difference is the Future of Civil Rights" (Oxford UP, 2019)
57 mins; May 27, 2019
Heather R. White, "Reforming Sodom: Protestants and the Rise of Gay Rights" (UNC Press, 2015)
34 mins; May 14, 2019
Lindsey N. Kingston, "Fully Human: Personhood, Citizenship, and Rights" (Oxford UP, 2019)
54 mins; May 08, 2019
Mollie Gerver, "The Ethics and Practice of Refugee Repatriation" (U Edinburgh Press, 2018)
62 hours 13 mins; May 01, 2019
Anthony Nownes, "Organizing for Transgender Rights: Collective Action, Group Development, and the Rise of a New Social Movement" (SUNY Press, 2019)
24 mins; April 09, 2019
Dagmar Herzog, "Unlearning Eugenics: Sexuality, Reproduction, and Disability in Post-Nazi Europe" (U Wisconsin Press, 2018)
42 mins; January 25, 2019
Yael Ben-zvi, “Native Land Talk: Indigenous and Arrivant Rights Theories” (Dartmouth College Press, 2018)
79 hours 41 mins; November 15, 2018
Sandra Fahy, “Marching Through Suffering: Loss and Survival in North Korea” (Columbia UP, 2015)
57 mins; November 05, 2018
Mike Ananny, “Networked Press Freedom: Creating Infrastructures For a Public Right to Hear” (MIT Press, 2018)
44 mins; November 05, 2018
Joel R. Pruce, “The Mass Appeal of Human Rights” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
38 mins; October 03, 2018
Sarah E. Holcombe, “Remote Freedoms: Politics, Personhood and Human Rights in Aboriginal Central Australia” (Stanford UP, 2018)
15 mins; September 26, 2018
Samuel Moyn, “Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World” (Harvard UP, 2018)
56 mins; September 04, 2018
Sarah Snyder, “From Selma to Moscow: How Human Rights Activists Transformed Foreign Policy”
56 mins; July 03, 2018
Sam Lebovic, “Free Speech and Unfree News: The Paradox of Press Freedom in America” (Harvard UP, 2016)
57 mins; May 10, 2018
Aimi Hamraie, “Building Access: Universal Design and the Politics of Disability” (U Minnesota Press, 2017)
44 mins; April 25, 2018
Jimmy Patino, “Raza Si, Migra No: Chicano Movement Struggles for Immigrant Rights in San Diego” (UNC Press, 2017)
58 mins; April 05, 2018
Jesse Rhodes, “Ballot Blocked: The Political Erosion of the Voting Rights Act” (Stanford UP, 2017)
26 mins; March 19, 2018
Bonny Ibhawoh, “Human Rights in Africa” (Cambridge UP, 2018)
92 hours 5 mins; March 02, 2018
Sarah D. Phillips, “Disability and Mobile Citizenship in Postsocialist Ukraine” (Indiana UP, 2010)
44 mins; December 14, 2017
Finbarr Curtis, “The Production of American Religious Freedom” (NYU Press, 2016)
65 hours 28 mins; November 14, 2017
Stephanie Hinnershitz, “A Different Shade of Justice: Asian American Civil Rights in the South” (UNC Press, 2017)
65 hours 42 mins; November 14, 2017
Andrew R. Lewis, “The Rights Turn in Conservative Christian Politics: How Abortion Transformed the Culture Wars” (Cambridge UP, 2017)
28 mins; November 06, 2017
Riki Wilchins, “TRANS/gressive: How Transgender Activists Took on Gay Rights, Feminism, the Media, and Congress
and Won!” (Riverdale Avenue Books, 2017)
55 mins; July 26, 2017
Jill Gentile, “Feminine Law: Freud, Free Speech, and the Voice of Desire” (Karnac, 2016)
50 mins; May 08, 2017
Mark P. Bradley, “The World Reimagined: Americans and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century” (Cambridge UP, 2016)
61 hours 5 mins; April 17, 2017
Elizabeth Barnes, “The Minority Body: A Theory of Disability” (Oxford UP, 2016)
70 hours 25 mins; January 03, 2017
Carrie Booth Walling, “All Necessary Measures: The United Nations and Humanitarian Intervention” (U. of Pennsylvania Press, 2013)
73 hours 33 mins; November 19, 2016
Sally Engle Merry, “The Seduction of Quantification: Measuring Human Rights, Gender Violence, and Sex Trafficking” (U. of Chicago Press, 2016)
56 mins; November 07, 2016
Jonathan Todres and Sarah Higinbotham, “Human Rights in Children’s Literature: Imagination and the Narrative of the Law” (Oxford UP, 2016)
44 mins; October 18, 2016
Katherine Turk, “Equality on Trial: Gender and Rights in the Modern American Workplace” (U. of Pennsylvania Press, 2016)
61 hours 14 mins; September 19, 2016
Ayten Gundogdu, “Rightlessness in an Age of Rights: Hannah Arendt and the Contemporary Struggles of Migrants” (Oxford UP, 2015)
71 hours 12 mins; June 26, 2016
Daniel K. Williams, “Defenders of the Unborn: The Pro-Life Movement Before Roe v. Wade” (Oxford UP, 2016)
64 hours 34 mins; April 01, 2016
Samuel Moyn, “Christian Human Rights” (U of Pennsylvania Press, 2015)
60 hours 6 mins; February 06, 2016
Anita Weiss, “Interpreting Islam, Modernity, and Women’s Rights in Pakistan” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015)
63 hours 16 mins; January 26, 2016
Alice J. Kang, “Bargaining for Women’s Rights: Activism in an Aspiring Muslim Democracy” (U of Minnesota Press, 2015)
17 mins; December 16, 2015
Saba Mahmood, “Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report” (Princeton UP, 2015)
85 hours 33 mins; December 07, 2015
Kerry Eleveld, “Don’t Tell Me to Wait: How the Fight for Gay Rights Changed America and Transformed Obama’s Presidency” (Basic Books, 2015)
31 mins; October 22, 2015
John Holt, “Escape from Childhood: The Needs and Rights of Children” (HoltGWS LLC, 2013)
47 mins; October 20, 2015
Henry Shue, “Climate Justice: Vulnerability and Protection” (Oxford UP, 2014)
59 mins; July 21, 2015
Kyle G. Volk, “Moral Minorities and the Making of American Democracy” (Oxford UP, 2014)
57 mins; July 21, 2015
Beatrix Hoffman, “Health Care for Some: Rights and Rationing in the United States since 1930” (U of Chicago, 2012)
54 mins; May 28, 2015
Jon L. Mills, “Privacy in the New Media Age” (University Press of Florida, 2015)
33 mins; May 25, 2015
Thomas Weiss and Dan Plesch, eds., "We are Strong: Wartime Origins and the Future United Nations" (Routledge, 2015)
29 mins; March 05, 2015
Seana Shiffrin, “Speech Matters: On Lying, Morality, and the Law” (Princeton UP, 2014)
70 hours 12 mins; March 02, 2015
Carol Gould, “Interactive Democracy: The Social Roots of Global Justice” (Cambridge UP, 2014)
65 hours 47 mins; February 01, 2015
Amy Evrard, “The Moroccan Women’s Rights Movement” (Syracuse University Press, 2014)
65 hours 4 mins; October 30, 2014
Lynette J. Chua, “Mobilizing Gay Singapore: Rights and Resistance in an Authoritarian State” (Temple UP, 2014)
65 hours 35 mins; October 15, 2014
Cymene Howe, “Intimate Activism: The Struggle for Sexual Rights in Postrevolutionary Nicaragua” (Duke UP, 2013)
71 hours 47 mins; June 10, 2014
Marci A. Hamilton, “God vs. the Gavel: Religion and the Rule of Law” (Cambridge UP, 2014)
59 mins; June 07, 2014
Federico Fabbrini, “Fundamental Rights in Europe: Challenges and Transformations in Comparative Perspective” (Oxford University Press, 2014)
33 mins; April 21, 2014
Daniel Lewis, “Direct Democracy and Minority Rights: A Critical Assessment of the Tyranny of the Majority in the American States” (Routledge, 2013)
21 mins; March 03, 2014
Samuel Moyn, “The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History” (Harvard UP, 2010)
61 hours 13 mins; January 14, 2014
James E. Fleming and Linda C. McClain, “Ordered Liberty: Rights, Responsibilities, and Virtues” (Harvard UP, 2013)
42 mins; December 02, 2013
Shannon Gleeson, “Conflicting Commitments: The Politics of Enforcing Immigrant Worker Rights in San Jose and Houston” (Cornell UP, 2012)
22 mins; June 17, 2013
Daniel McCool, “The Most Fundamental Right: Contrasting Perspectives on the Voting Rights Act” (Indiana UP, 2012)
22 mins; February 27, 2013
Corey Brettschneider, “When the State Speaks, What Should it Say? How Democracies can Protect Expression and Promote Equality” (Princeton UP, 2012)
70 hours 19 mins; November 26, 2012
Julietta Hua, “Trafficking Women’s Human Rights” (University of Minnesota Press, 2011)
41 mins; October 13, 2012
Ann Elizabeth Mayer, “Islam and Human Rights: Traditions and Politics” (Westview Press, 2012)
53 mins; June 24, 2012
Niamh Reilly, “Women’s Human Rights: Seeking Gender Justice in a Globalizing Age” (Polity Press, 2009)
75 hours 40 mins; December 20, 2011
Jonathan Weiler, “Human Rights in Russia: A Darker Side of Reform” (Lynne Rienner, 2004)
62 hours 35 mins; August 25, 2011
Rajshree Chandra, “Knowledge as Property, Issues in the Moral Grounding of Intellectual Property Rights” (Oxford UP, 2010)
58 mins; August 04, 2011
Aziz Rana, “The Two Faces of American Freedom” (Harvard UP, 2010)
75 hours 56 mins; July 13, 2011
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